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Approbation and ‘Clearness’: The Early Quaker Marriage Discipline

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Approbation and ‘Clearness’: The Early Quaker Marriage Discipline

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Approbation and ‘Clearness’: The Early Quaker Marriage Discipline book

ByKristianna Polder
BookMatrimony in the True Church

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Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2015
Imprint Routledge
Pages 84
eBook ISBN 9781315594323

ABSTRACT

This chapter discusses the social stigmas faced by the early Quakers, including popular accusations of amoral and disorderly behaviour, which contributed in part to the more pragmatic reasons for the early Quaker development of a strict courtship and marriage approbation discipline. The early Quaker wedding ceremony be considered, followed by concluding remarks on the gradual development of the Women's Meetings and their unique responsibilities in the marriage discipline. Courtship and marriage were major preoccupation for the early Quakers, and were painstakingly regulated within early Quaker meetings, thought and practice. Endogamous marriages were a necessary component to sustain and propagate the Quaker community, God's True Church. William Penn wrote of the Quakers' way of marriage which is peculiar to them' including their rejection of heathenish' and vain' customs. Quakers John Benson and Issabell Fforest sought approbation for marriage, Isabel was subsequently visited by Friends appointed to investigate their clearness for marriage.

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